Gold Ribbon

This small family-run restaurant in Glen Eden is most known for its celebration cakes, colourful creations of purple and green and yellow boasting flavours like ube, pandan and yema. They’re soft, light, joyful things, with simple decoration and lots of cream. When you pick your cake up, make sure it coincides with meal time, because hearty dishes like sisig, kare kare and sinigang are all delicious. Gold Ribbon also offers “boodle fights”, where all the food is laid out on a long table covered in banana leaves, and eating with your hands is heavily encouraged. When we’re out of lockdown, surely.